World Wide Consortium Offices
The mission of W3C Offices can be summarized as follows:
"To promote adoption of W3C recommendations among developers, application builders, and
standards setters, and to encourage inclusion of stakeholder organizations in the creation of future
recommendations by joining W3C." http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
2010-12-07

Second Semantic Meetup with the W3C Benelux Office2010-12-07:
On november 24 the second semantic meetup with the
W3C Benelux Office
took place in
Amsterdam. This time it was located at
Mediamatic.
Among the speakers was
Ivan Herman who presented
"Some of the newest SW technologies at W3C: RDFa1.1 and R2ML".
Other topics were about careers, practical use of Semantic
Web technology in publishing and legal information retrieval.
After the presentations there was time for informal discussions supported
by food and drinks.
The participants enjoyed the easy athmosphere of the event and the discussions
as documented by a quote from a participant: "meetups are fun, but informal
meetups are even more fun."http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#dec12
2010-12-07"W3C India Workshop on Internationalization of E-governance Applications" report published2010-11-26: The
W3C India Office has published a
report
on the "W3C India Workshop on Internationalization of E-governance Applications"
held in August 2010. The event was organized in cooperation with
Opera software. The event addressed topics specific to India an
many other developing countries like
the problem of last mile connectivity and reaching the larger section of society
due to limited availability of web based services with local language support.
One building stone in resolving such problems are the W3C internationalization best practices
coupled with other W3C standards. Because of last mile problem mobile
technologies play also an important role when trying to reach the citizens
with e-government services. Also see news item.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Nov26
2010-11-26W3C Hungary Office announces HTML5 event2010-10-22:
The
W3C Office Hungary
is organizing a
one-day event on HTML5
on 28th October 2010.
Invited guest speaker is Michael Smith from W3C Keio host. People are invited to deliver
a lecture or presentation, in case they have an interesting topic or project related
to either HTML5 or other W3C technologies. Participation is free, but needs advance registration.
Conference languages are Hungarian and English.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Oct22
2010-10-22W3C Brazil Office opens Café Semântico2010-10-21: In the tradition of its Café com Browser
the W3C Brasil Office opened the Café Semântico
on October 15th. Speaker was Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity lead. 30 participants gathered in th eCafé and more than 120
participated remotely on the Web. Participants were very actively commented and raised questions on twitter (@w3cbrasil,
#cafecombrowser, #cafewithbrowser, #cafesemantico) and in the live chat. Ivan herman presented the basic concepts of Semantic Web, examples and the technologies behind and under them. This presentation will be available in video in the W3C Brazil Office web site. Slides are already available.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Oct21a
2010-10-21W3C Brazil Web Conference a success2010-10-21: As reported before the
W3C Brasil Office
held the second edition of W3C Brazil Web Conference, on October 5 and 6, in Belo Horizonte.
About 200 attendees had the opportunity of talking about the future of the Web with W3C special guests.
Paul Cooton, co-chair of W3C HTML Working Group and Microsoft Partner Group manager, addressed the
future of HTML 5. His presence was timely perfect to clarify the great repercussion on news headlines
to not deploy HTML 5. Noshir Contractor, professor at Northeastern University, USA, addressed the researches on the social network lificycle.
Fernanda Viegas, a Brazilian researcher at Google, in Cambridge, USA, gave a a vibrant talk on the Web.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Oct21
2010-10-21Web.br Census published by CGI.br and NIC.br2010-10-13: Under the title "Dimensions and characteristics of the Brazilian Web,
a study by the gov.br" the
Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br)
and the Network
Information Center – NIC.br
published a
study
about the size, technology and use of the Brazil Web. The study was conducted
by the
W3C Brazil Office
in cooperation with the
Center of Study and Research in Network Technology and Operations (CEPTRO.br).http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Oct13
2010-10-13W3C Australia Office organizes W3C south and Semantic Web Meetup2010-10-06:
The W3C Australia Office organizes a track named W3C South
on the upcoming Web Directions South 2010
conference.
W3C South will be held on Oct 14-15 in Sydney. Topics will be Web development, Widgets, HTML 5,
accessibility, RDFa, and Linked Open Government data. See
program for information on
details and speakers.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Oct06a
2010-10-06Armin Haller appointed new manager of the W3C Australia Office2010-10-06: W3C welcomes Armin Haller as new manager of the
W3C Australia Office. Armin is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the
Information Engineering Laboratory in the
ICT Centre of
CSIRO, Australia. He received a PhD
from the National
University of Ireland, Galway. His research interests are in workflow management,
Web services and the Semantic Web.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Oct06
2010-10-06W3C Brazil Office holds W3C Web.br 2010 Conference2010-10-05: For the second time
W3C Brasil Office
organizes the
W3C Web.br 2010 Conference.
The conference takes place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in October, 5 and 6.
Talks on the impact of the web on business, on government, and on community are scheduled for the first day of the Conference. On the second day, the W3C Brazil Office will launch the English version of the “Dimensions and Characteristics of the Brazilian Web: a study of the gov.br”, the first outcomes of Web Census Project.
Keynotes will be by Paul Cotton, co-chair of W3C HTML Working Group and Microsoft Canada representative on "The future of the web and HTML 5",
Noshir Contractor, a member of The Web Science Trust and director of research group in Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) at Northwestern University, USA, will speak about "Web Science and the study of social networks",
Sergio Amadeu, associate professor at the Federal University of ABC will address "The Future of Internet and the communication ecosystem".
Demi Getschko, NIC.br's CEO, will speak on "The Future of Internet in Brazil and in the world" and the closing session will bring computing designer Fernanda Viégas, one of the leaders of Google's Big Picture project. The W3C Web Conference seeks to offer to the audience an annual forum for discussion and debate on the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its technology and its impact on society and culture. More information on the agenda can be found at the
conference Web site.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Oct05
2010-10-05New host for the W3C UK and Ireland Office: Nominet takes over from STFC2010-10-01: W3C announces that the W3C UK and Ireland Office
has a new home.
STFC (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
that hosted the eldest W3C Office since 1997 hands over to
Nominet.
W3C would like to thank STFC and the Office Manager
Michael Wilson for all the years of their great support.
Nominet runs the Internet registry for .uk domain names. This is one of the world’s largest
Internet registries with over eight million domain names.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Oct01
2010-10-01W3C Germany and Austria Office holds W3C day at Xinnovations 20102010-09-17: The
W3C Germany and Austria Office
held its
W3Cday 2010 at the
Xinnovations event on Sept. 15th 2010 in Berlin.
The Office had managed to engaged some dedicated speakers on some hot subjects.
Jens Grochtdreis from Webkrauts gave the view of a Webdeveloper on W3C work.
In his talk "Knockin' on heaven's door - Die Praxis zu Besuch beim W3C"
he emphasized that he loves open standards from W3C - but he would appreciate them
to be published more timely. He thinks that
HTML5
and
CSS3
are urgently needed.
Unfortunately the talk of Patrick Lauke from
Opera
on HTML5 had to be cancelled because the speaker
had fallen ill. Benjamin Adrian from
DFKI
and the
W3C RDFa WG
introduced the audience to new features of
RDFa
followed by Klaus Birkenbihl, W3C Offices coordinator, who gave an overview on how RDFa is used today by
big players like Facebook, Google and Yahoo.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Sep17
2010-09-17W3help.org, the website of China Web Standards Promotion Community launched2010-09-02:
W3help.org, the Website of China Web Standards Promotion Community was officially launched on Google DevFest event, Sep 2nd 2010 in Beijing.
Prof. Dianfu Ma, Dean of School of computer Science and engineering, gave an opening speech to share his thoughts on the future of web and web standards on behalf of W3C China Office. He said: "I'm happy to wish the community success and I expect, that with all the effort and support we can build a better Web in China, based on open standards."
The China Web Standards Promotion Community, formerly known as W3C China Community, is a joint effort of the industry, standards bodies, research institutes, volunteer communities or other organizations bodies who care about web standards in China and the W3C China Office. W3help.org focuses on the promotion and application of web standards by way of providing standards related technical reports, cross-browser development and compatibility resources, Chinese translations, online courses and local news.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Sep02
2010-09-02W3C India Office holds Workshop on Internationalization of e-Governance Applications2010-09-01: On August 5th and 6th the
W3C India Office held a Workshop on Internationalization of e-Governance Applications. The objective and focus of the workshop was to create awareness and provide training. The audience were developers and users of e-Governance applications and all associated stake holders interested in using W3C web standards especially in the perspective of internationalization. The workshop also aimed at capturing the requirements for Indian languages implementation of e-Governance solutions. It also covered hands-on examples and training to develop e-Governance solutions in Indian languages using W3C standards.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Sep01
2010-09-01China Office cooperated with Tsinghua University on the 4th Chinese Semantic Web Symposium, CSWS20102010-08-31: W3C China Office cooperated with Tsinghua University to host "the 4th Chinese Semantic Web Symposium, CSWS 2010"from August 19th to 21st 2010 in Beijing. To maintain the tradition of the CSWS series, the 2010 Symposium provided effective opportunities for the researchers of Semantic Web technology and related areas, especially young scholars, to communicate and do some academic exchanges.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Aug31
2010-08-31W3C Members meeting in Korea2010-08-13:
The W3C Korea Office held
a Korean Member Workshop
in Seoul on 21 July 2010. Participants
were from the Korean membership as well as from the regional W3C host in Keio University, Tokyo.
It was an opportunity to have a face to face membership gathering, and also
to share interests and
discuss plans for Web standardization activities among the members.
The program started with talks on trends of new Web technologies including HTML5 and
Augmented Reality on the web. Michael Smith and Kazuyuki Ashimura from W3C team, Keio,
presented new features of HTML5 and HTML5 IG activities in Japan.
Augmented Reality on the web and some issues to be resolved by standardization were
introduced by W3C Korea Office.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Aug13
2010-08-13Semantic meetup with the W3C Benelux Office2010-08-12:
On June 29 the First Amsterdamse Semantic Meetup took place in the ‘Tuinzaal’
of the Brakke Grond in the center of Amsterdam.
The focus of the Meetup was on bridging academic research to business applications.
The meetup were joined by 27 participants. Contributions were by 5 speakers:
Sam Coppens, Multimedia Lab University Ghent, 'Deep Archiving...a Provenance Story';
Bastiaan Deblieck, TenForce, 'Using SKOS and Semantic Technologies to support smart,
sustainable and inclusive growth in Europe' (pitch of the SemTech2010 talk);
Lieve Janssen, Explore+ 'Summer of Code - Bridging the gap between academy and industry';
Balthasar Schopman, VU Amsterdam - Computer Science - Web & Media,
'Serendipitous search on the Web of Data' and
Orri Erling from OpenLink Software. The event was supported by the
W3C Benelux Office.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#Aug12
2010-08-12WebReBuild.org and W3C China Office hold W3C Day - WebRebuild 2010 in Beijing2010-07-17: Targeted at Web developers that want to promote and use advanced
Web technologies, W3C China Office and WebReBuild.org had invited to the symposion
"W3C day - WebRebuild 2010". More than 250 participants enjoyed a day filled with various topics related to
Website development. The symposion was well organized and offered the audience many ways of
participation and some entertainment. Participants could send their comments on the talks
diretly to a second screen using a micro blogging service, provided by one of the biggest local
online protal providers. A lottery amongst the microbloggers encouraged comments and offered entertainment.http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2010#jul18
2010-07-17